Today, the man who invented Cassandra at Facebook, Avinash Lakshman, reveals his new startup: A storage company called Hedvig, which has raised $12.5 million in search of a repeat performance as it works to help companies hold the huge amounts of data they generate.

Before Facebook, Lakshman worked at Amazon Web Services, where he co-invented the Amazon DynamoDB data-crunching product.

Avinash Lakshman reveals his new startup: A storage company called Hedvig, which has raised $12.5 million in search of a repeat performance as it works to help companies hold the huge amounts of data they generate.